The comedian and actor talks about his pitch black comedy I Love My Dad, where his character catfishes his son, and the state of Marvel film-making
lenty of movies have been pinned on seemingly foolproof plans that go catastrophically awry in execution; less common is the movie that hinges on a scheme so ill-advised, so rife with potential for disaster, so guaranteed to end in failure that one wonders why a character would even try it in the first place.The new film I Love My Dad falls into the latter category, which was precisely what drew star Patton Oswalt to it.
Even if the sexting wasn’t visually represented in the most awkward scenes of intimacy between two men this side of Wet Hot American Summer , the taboo-teasing performance would still require as much empathy as an actor can muster. Oswalt soon realized that only by meeting Chuck on his level, however contemptible, could he hope to access the mindset that goes through with an idea so stunningly bad as to be impervious to success.
“This is the first one where I really play a dad who’s trying, in his messed-up way, to repair things in a relationship that’s really gone wrong,” Oswalt says. “That’s a very new perspective, for me, that I had to learn how to embrace. I haven’t done a parent just dealing with parenthood before. Playing the father of a son who’s in his twenties, I have to at least have an idea in my mind of what it was like when he was five, eight, twelve, and the ways I messed that up.
“Some people, like Buster Keaton, very freewheeling, got crushed by the studio system,” Oswalt explains. “But others like Vincente Minnelli and Michael Curtiz thrived, doing amazing things using that system. To go deeper, here’s my question: when will Marvel unknowingly hire their Douglas Sirk, a guy who comes in and smuggles in all kinds of hidden richness they don’t even see at the studio? That’s gonna be great … We don’t know yet, what a 20, 30, 40 million Marvel movie looks like.
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